Christie’s Will Auction Four Moon Watches, Each Depicting a Lunar Phase

Originally published in the October 2015 issue of Robb Report Collection as “Moon Rise”

For his latest creation, Yann Debelle de Montby, creative director at Debelle de Montby Associates, looked to the moon—and to NASA. Working with designers Tiziano Vudafieri and Claudio Saverino, he studied the space agency’s 3-D lunar photographs to help create Shanghai Moons, a set of four watches that is among the highlights at Chinese and Asian Contemporary Design—a Christie’s Shanghai sale to be held in the city on O…